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Gavin O'Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, has been re-elected President of the World Association of Newspapers for a second two-year term. Fred Arp, Chief Financial Officer of the Telegraaf Media Group in the Netherlands, was re-elected Treasurer of WAN. MAN ON TOP: Gavin O'Reilly was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer of Independent News &...

(FMM/IFEX) - The Free Media Movement is extremely concerned about the arbitrary decision taken by the authorities to seal the private satellite broadcasting station CBN Sat on the night of Tuesday June 6 2006. This company has been broadcasting in Sri Lanka for over one year and has publicly advertised their services. Many Sri Lankans who wish to watch satellite broadcast programmes including...

(FLIP/IFEX) - The Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalía General de la Nación) has pressed charges against two members of right-wing paramilitary groups for the 6 April 2003 murder of journalist José Emeterio Rivas Rivas in Barrancabermeja, the capital of Santander department, and against the city's former mayor, Julio César Ardila Torres, for facilitating paramilitary groups' actions in the region...

NEW YORK: Ann Cooper, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, is leaving the organization to run the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s broadcast department, according to a memo from CPJ chair Paul Steiger. The memo, first posted on the Romenesko Web site Wednesday, says Cooper will keep the CPJ post she has held for eight years until the end of June. “CPJ...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has released six new strategy reports on some of the most important recent developments in the newspaper industry globally – -- new revenue models, outsourcing, digital classifieds, new editorial concepts advertising science and pricing strategies. SHAPING THE FUTURE: WAN is a leading provider of industry research and analysis through its Shaping the...

The deaths of two CBS crew members in Iraq and the wounding of a veteran correspondent have dealt yet another deadly blow to news organizations determined to cover a conflict increasingly perilous to journalists. For months, the killings and kidnappings of news professionals in Iraq have prompted a reappraisal of the need for large staffs there. While no major news organizations say they are...

MOSCOW // When Russia's president hailed his country's record on press freedom this week, he omitted the newest, significant exception to the rights of the press: Journalistic freedom here apparently no longer extends to calling President Vladimir V. Putin unflattering names. The evidence includes prosecutors last month charging the editor of an online newspaper with the criminal offense of...

Two Azeri newspapers have published cartoons of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini and the country's supreme clerical leader Ali Khamnei, in a move which drew fire from Iran. The move came amid a series of mass protests by ethnic Azeris throughout the neighboring country triggered by a publication of an insulting cartoon by state-owned newspaper Iran. The Caucasus Clerical Office...

Digital media giant Microsoft has designs on offline media, and is readying a system that would extend its online search advertising model to other outlets, Joanne Bradford, Microsoft's chief media revenue officer, revealed Wednesday during an American Business Media conference in New York. Like arch-rival Google, MSN hopes to extend its paid search platform, adCenter, to a wide variety of outlets...

The head of the Russian Agency for Press and Mass Communications has said that the major state companies would dispose of their media assets in the near future. In his Thursday interview with the Echo Moskvy radio Mikhail Seslavinskiy said that “these organizations should not keep their media assets� and should part with them at a good price.” “We realize that the sale should go ahead soon, but it...